Internet home of Matthew W. Quinn, author of Lovecraftian novel THE THING IN THE WOODS and upcoming novella LITTLE PEOPLE, BIG GUNS. Regular on podcast MYOPIA: DEFEND YOUR CHILDHOOD and occasional contributor to THE GEEKLY ODDCAST. Member of the Horror Writers Association.
I'm all for people changing their positions based on evidence rather than being inflexible and rigid, but based on the stuff about money, I think Newt's approach to many of the issues herein is not based on examination of the evidence.
(I'm thinking the Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac business and health-care. I don't think the people who believe global warming is human-caused and a problem have got the money needed to sway him.)
Newt is smarter than the average bear in the Republican field at the moment and I'd support him over Paul (due to the bin Laden raid) and Romney and would probably vote for him over Obama, but this isn't a good sign at all. And given he has written alternate-history fiction (something I'm interested in), that's saying something.
And Ron Paul's ads have gotten better. When I supported Ron Paul in 2008, I remember a really goofy television ad featuring a bunch of people who really couldn't act sitting around a restaurant, with one of them rather unsubtly saying "I'm going to vote for Ron Paul." In TVTropes terms, Narm.
Speaker Gingrich also flip-flopped on Libya within a few days or weeks
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